Development Branch is not enabled, though I have tried it on a few occasions with the same results.
My game has crashed before the game loaded ever since I first downloaded it around 10 AM PST 3/5/13
Installed it twice, from different locations, same exact problem.
Crash Dump & RPT files were not created. {F17303}
I've tried over 50 times to launch the game, same behavior from the exe every time.
Launched via Steam, Desktop & executable inside the steam folder.
My Zone Alarm is disabled, seen & read through the thread about it multiple times already.
Don't have Admin access/privelages currently.
Mise:
Attempted -nobenchmark on various attempts to launch my game
Tried -Noworld=true
Tried without Xfire
Verified steam cache & tried developer branch, nothing has worked thus far.
Zone Alarm is probably causing this issue :
Try this :
Sometimes windows won't show the GUI or icon, but the process will still be backgrounded and shown within the Task Manager (ie. taskmgr.exe)
FYI: Arma requires certain TCP and UDP ports to be open.
Can't uninstall Zonealarm without admin, which I currently cannot get access to.
It's not a port problem roger, it's likely Zone Alarm.
Speaking of which, what is the status on getting ArmA 3 more AV friendly?
Please uninstall Zone Alarm and let me know if that helped.
We're currently prioritizing issues that relate to stability and performance of Arma 3,
or issues that affect the majority of players. As for the antivirus softwares,
we've made sure that most of the major programs recognize the Arma 3 application correctly.
Eventually we hope that this will be the case for all (free) antivirus software,
but the quickest way right now would be a registry update by the developers of the antivirus software.
D:\Program files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2013
At me so, choose the way.
Try to reinstall "vcredist_x64" , "vcredist_x86".
Start these files in turn. The first start choose "removal of appendices". The Second start "installation".